Warcraft 3 issue with Wine (crash at launch) [topic changed]

[elvanor]

Hello all.

Setup: Kernel 2.6.9, ATI drivers 3.14.1, Wine latest stable from portage (it's 20041019).

After too many unfixable problems with Cedega 4.2 and my system for War3/TFT (it ran but crashed every 20 minutes so that is impossible for BNet), I have decided to try regular wine which should work using the --opengl option.

I have managed to install Warcraft 3, but I can't install (using Wine) the Frozen Throne. When i launch "wine /mnt/cdrom/install.exe" the installer launchs perfectly but doesnt allow me to install anything since my Warcraft 3 installation is not detected. The installer just tells me that I should install RoC first, before TFT.

Any one knows which file I should tweak in order for Wine to correctly recognize my fake windows drive which is in .wine/fake_windows??

(in fake_windows I have Program Files/Warcraft III/ folder)

thanx

Elvanor

[EDIT]

I have just cheked and in my Wine config file I have the correct C drive defined (something as:

[elvanor]

I found a solution to this problem : upgrade to the latest (~x86) Wine. This will fix this problem. I was able to install entirely the game, the extension, the patches (to version 1.17a), and the no-cd crack, however, I still cant run the game (crash at launch after 5 seconds) using Wine.

As a side note, I found a version of WineX that seems stable with War 3 and my system: WineX 3.2, so I reverted from Cedega 4.2

Will check again once a new version of Wine is out and/or nex ATI drivers are out.

Elvanor

[yogipsu]

Use ~x86 wine, set your winver in .wine/config to win2k, and make sure your dosdevices symlink (~/.wine/dosdevices) to your cdrom drive is correct.

You do not need the no-cd crack to play Warcraft/TFT with wine. You also don't need cedega; it works perfectly with wine-- however, run it with the -opengl flag.

edit: I think, but I'm not sure, that the cause of your problems is the no-cd crack. Also, during the reinstallation process, if the installation halts at the end and you have an error, simply run through it again; it seems that there needs to be something in the .reg files for the process to succeed.

[elvanor]

Hi there.

I set the wine version to winxp, I will try setting it to win2k but I doubt it'll change anything.
I was of course running with the open-gl flag.

You may be right when you say the problem may be with my no-cd crack. I would say there is a good 40% chance that this is the case (although under Cedega, the same exact no-cd crack works perfectly including BattleNet).

But the problem is, without the no-cd crack the cd check alway fails miserably even though I have the original TFT CD in the drive. This is apparently a kernel problem (according to the excellent how to at http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?appId=897&versionId=1177).

Kernel 2.6.9 which I currently use (vanilla sources, unpatched) has a problem with Securom protection. The how to claims that kernel-2.6.10 may be fixed so when I upgrade to kernel 2.6.10 (which is not out yet in Portage stable), I may try again to run TFT without the no cd crack.

Until then, i am using WineX 3.3 and the cd crack.

Elvanor

[Dais]

It is indeed the no cd crack .. you can't upgrade War3 to Frozen Throne if you replaced the original war3.exe with a cracked one .. put back the original one, install frozen throne, patch it, and THEN install the no cd crack for this version.

I managed to play War3 Frozen Throne with the latest wine (not ~arch if I remember well) and I have no problem launching it/going to battle.net.

There is also a way for not using the cd crack, but it didn't work for me, so ..

[elvanor]

Hmm, sorry but you should have read the whole topic with more attention (or I should have been clearer . Installing TFT over War3 is no longer my problem (I will rename the topic); nor is the installation of the CD crack.

I had done as you said before, and have TFT patched to latest version, and the no cd crack. The problem now is that wine always crash when launching the game (what is fun is that it launches the initial screen when you see the animated 3d going on, but then 2 seconds later it crashes).

I may put here the trace from Wine before the crash but I doubt it will help someone.

Anyway, thanx for your help!

Elvanor

ps: if you read again, not using the no cd crack currently doesnt work for me. But I suspect the cd crack *might* cause the launch crash bug, so I do want to try this no "nocd crack"way. I am waiting for kernel 2.6.10

[Dais]

Oops, sorry Because you answered to yourself, i thought it was someone else

here's my wine config, maybe it will be useful ..

[elvanor]

The cd crack is not the virtual one, I think (not sure). Its name seems to be Reloaded something, it adds the DLL file revolt.dll to your war 3 dir as well as a new war3.exe (and worldedit.exe but I dont care).

About the DLLs, I am not sure if I have all the required ones, I dont have any windows installation so I only use the ones provided by Wine itself. In particular I dont have mscrvt32 or something like that.
I only have wine dlls...

elvanor

afterthought: this thread is starting to focus more and more on cracks... given the forum policy, we should probably avoid that...

[Dais]

You really should try to get the msvcrt*.dll (all of them found on an installed windows) and regscr32.exe if you wanna have a chance to play ..
I think that your problem is more because of these files.